Stalled git cloning and possible solutions

Hi,

Quite sometimes when cloning a large repo stalls, hitting Ctrl+c cleans what been downloaded, and process needs re-start.

Is there a way to recover or continue from already downloaded files during cloning ? Please point me to an archive url if solution exists. (though I continue to search through them as I email this)

Can there be something like: git clone <url> --use-method=rsync